Josephine "Josie" (Shanks) Maxwell

b. 28 July 1824, Fauquier Co., VA
d. 23 May 1906, Putnam Co., TN
Husbands: 1st Gordon Cloyd Maxwell;
2nd Meredith Jurdon Gentry - Civil War - Union.
Meredith is the s/o Robert Gentry & Nancy Harris
Father: William Simon Shanks
Mother: Margaret "Peggy" Maddux
Buried: Gordon Maxwell Graveyard,
Located in Maddux Hollow on the old
Blanchard Duke place now owned by Jerry Tucker.
See Chapter 5

L to R: Carolyn (Shanks) Huddleston & her sister Miriam (Shanks) Gwaltney
at the graves of Gordon Cloyd Maxwell & Josephine "Josie" (Shanks) Maxwell.